Flowerhead volatile oil composition of soilless culture-grown Chrysanthemum balsamita L.

Hydrodistilled flowerhead volatile oil composition of soilless culture-grown Chrysanthemum balsamita L. was studied for its components by GC/MS. Thirty-one constituents were quantified, comprising 94.08% of the oil. Oxygenated monoterpenes (78%) and sesquiterpenes (sesquiterpene hydrocarbons and oxygenated sesquiterpenes) (14.88%) were the major classes of identified components occurring in higher proportions. The predominant constituents of the volatile oil were carvone (52.01%), alpha-thujone (11.04%), (E)-beta-farnesene (3.91%), limonene (2.7%) and delta-cadinol (2.18%). Five sesquiterpenoidal components, namely gamma-gurjunene (1.74%), (Z, E)-farnesol (1.16%), delta-cadinene (1.14%), alpha-cedrene (1.11%) and beta-copaene-4-alpha-ol (0.44%) were identified for the first time from the volatile oil of costmary. Considering volatile oil components, the chemical profile of flowerhead volatile oil of soilless culture-grown C. balsamita L. was comparable with previously reported wild- and field- grown plants of C. balsamita L.